Comforter or wadded quilt



H. A. CALEF. vCOMFORTER 0R WADDED QUILT. APPLICATION FILED DEC. 3, 1920.

anted July 4, 1922,.

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HEIIAN L CAIIEF, 0F PORTLAND, OREGON.

COMFORTER 0R WADDED QUILT.

, Specication of Letters Patent.

appncauoaiuea December s, 1920. serial no. 427,975.

To all 'wwm t may concern.'

Be it known that I, HEMAN A.BCALEF, a citizen of the'United States, and a resident .of the city of Portland, county of Multnomah, and State of Oregon, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Comforters or Wadded Quilts, of Awhich the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide a wadded quilt or comforter which has no thin places resulting from the quilting seams where the stitches thereof extend completely through the quilt.

Myinvention is especially useful in using wadding material such as down, feathers and kapok, which, because of their lightness, are most desirable as a wadding material.

But'in the present general construction of comforters, the wadding material shifts away from the quilting stitches, land in consequence aiords little warmth at those latter laces, for there the thickness of the com orter is reduced to that of the. mere casing material.

I attain my object in the construction i1- lustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which;

Fig. 1 shows in perspective', a corner of my quilt, or comforter, as it appears when completed; and

Figs.2 to 4 inclusive illustrate the successive steps or stages in the process of manufacturing my comforter, namely: Fig. 2 shows the vlayers of material of which the case of my comforter is made in the process of sewing these layers together for forming the contiguous parallel tubular cells Awhich .'as here illustrated arearrangled in twoparal-A lel .courses overlappingfeac other at .their long sides;

Fig. a diagrammatieauy Shaws- `Said tuba-- lar cells stuffed with a' wadding material;

Fig. 4 shows a' binding of the marginal edgesffo'f :the casing layers; and

Fig. 5 shows a diagrammatic 'marginal .section taken longitudinally through oneuof Y the tubular cells of my comfortenand il1us trates how the edges ofthe .layers of `the`lv casingmaterial must be fastened together at the longitudinal ends of thecells.

The casing or tickingbf my comforter is preferablyl made of not less than three layers of material, viz: an intermediate layer a, a top layer b, and a bottomlayer 0.,' These artial Itop view of'one corner of my com orter, andthe. nishing -three layers of material must be Placed one the intermediate 4layer a by cross rows of parallelstitches as d and d; that is to say, sewing, for instance, the bottom layer back as indicated by the dash-anddot line c, of

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Fig. 2, and then sewing the upper course of tubular cells e, and a lower course of tubular cells f; said seams d and'd being staggered. that is to say, the seams being spaced equi-distant from each other, -and the lines of stitches of the seams uniting the top layer to the intermediate layer being located between those fastening the bottom layer to said intermediate layer, and thus the parallel cells so produced will overla each other. 'he `cells e and f are stuffed with the wadlng.

Those opposite ends of the intermediate layer a which form the sides of the parallel tubular cells are preferably not extended to the adjacent cross sectional side-edges of the comforter, but terminate as at a." in Fig. 3; thus producing a better fullness in the marginal cells as at f in Fig. 3. But the marginal ends of the intermediate layer a at the longitudinal ends of the cells must extend' to the marginal .edges of the comforter as'diagrammlatically shown at a2 in Fig. 5.; because the Wadding must be con- (ined in place at the longitudinal ends of the ycells by closingthe latter ends; and the only practical way of .closing said ends and retaining the convex effect desirable inthe ginal edge which projects beyond those stitches which are located` adjacent the perimeter of the casing.

. Finally the outer or perimetric edges of the .layers of casing are nished by a binding h extending all around the comforter, and secured by marginal stitches g, thus producing a comforter of the appearance represented by Fig. 1.v I

The 'tubularv cells e andj must not b e given af triangular form in cross section, such as' would result by arranging the intermediate layer'af'in an angularzig-zag'form; for, such'zconstruction would require an unf due amount 'of'fwaddng5 andmake the com;

trated and described is the most convenient,.

with regard to expense, for carrying my invention into practice; but I' do not conine myself thereto; for, if expense is no object, thecells e and f instead of being given a substantially rectilinear figure, could be given any desired curvilinear figure, as evident, so long as the principle of my invention is not departed from, namely: the coml forter is made of two parallel courses of wadding, arranged one above the other, the

wadding of which courses is confined in place in contiguous areas by circumscribing stitches, the stitches of the 'upper course. be.

ing located out of register with those of the lower course, whereby the confined area of wadding of one course overlaps said con- Aining stitches of the other course', and the two courses give to the comforter, as a whole, a substantially uniform thickness.

I claim:

As an article of manufacture, a quilt comprising a casing of flexible material composed of an upper piece, a lower piece, and an intermediate piece, the intermediate piece being secured at successive substantially equally spaced points to the upper and lower pieces alternately, to provide independent, relatively oil-set pockets of substantially equal capacity the length vof the upper, lower and intermediate pieces being substantially equal one to another between the extreme points of the attachment, and filling for the respective pockets, said filling serving to give a corresponding fullness to all of. said pockets, whereby under stretching of the quilt the upper, lower and intermediate casing-pieces yield to an equal extent, thereby correspondingly and similarly rendering and maintaining the thiclmess of all pockets substantially uniform throughout the quilt, without regard'to its de ree of stretch; HEL AN A, CAL'F. 

